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"Shangri-La" is a popular song written by bandleader Matty Malneck and Robert Maxwell in 1964 with lyrics by Carl Sigman. ... (1964) Peggy Lee - In the Name of Love ...
The initial inspiration for "Shangri-La" came when Rose Davies, the sister of Kinks members Ray and Dave Davies, emigrated with her husband, Arthur, to Australia. [3] When the band performed a show in the area during January 1964, the Davies brothers visited their sister in the Adelaide suburb of Elizabeth, where she and her family lived in a semi-detached home in a "designed community."
The Shangri-Las were an American girl group of the 1960s, consisting of Mary Weiss, her sister Elizabeth "Betty" Weiss and twin sisters Marguerite "Marge" Ganser and Mary Ann Ganser. Between 1964 and 1966 several hit pop songs of theirs documented teen tragedies and melodramas.
White on White, Shangri-La, Charade & Other Hits of 1964 is an album by American composer and arranger Nelson Riddle of popular contemporary songs. [1] [2] Released in May 1964, it was Riddle's first album for Reprise Records, after a lengthy career at Capitol Records. [3]
These are the Billboard magazine Hot 100 number one hits of 1964. That year, 11 acts achieved their first number one song, such as The Beatles, Louis Armstrong, Mary Wells, The Dixie Cups, Peter and Gordon, The Beach Boys, The Supremes, The Animals, Manfred Mann, The Shangri-Las, and Lorne Greene.
Maxwell went on to devising his own arrangements, and composed three songs for which he is remembered: "Little Dipper" (1959, recorded under the name The Mickey Mozart Quintet) peaked at #30 on the Billboard Hot 100, [6] "Ebb Tide" (1953) was a perennial favorite, and "Shangri-La" was a hit in 1957 for The Four Coins and 1969 for The Lettermen.
Mary Weiss, the lead singer and focal point of the Shangri-Las — one of the truly legendary girl groups of the early 1960s, with hits like “Leader of the Pack,” “Great Big Kiss ...
"Leader of the Pack" is a song written by George "Shadow" Morton, Jeff Barry, and Ellie Greenwich. It was a number one pop hit in 1964 for the American girl group the Shangri-Las. The single is one of the group's best known songs as well as a popular cultural example of a "teenage tragedy song".